At 0016 hours on June 6, 1944, the Horsa glider carrying Lieutenant Den Brotheridge and his men landed right near the Orne River Bridge. That bridge, as we saw a year ago, was a crucial target for Allied capture. Brotheridge led his platoon across the bridge, in the process killing a German sentry…the first German [...]
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Operation Overlord: The Liberation Begins
Posted in Europe, World War II (1939-1945), tagged 1944, D-Day, Lt. Denny Brotheridge, Normandy, Operation Overlord, President Dwight Eisenhower on June 6 | 2 Comments »
